# Voxile

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/voxile/

13 people recommended Voxile in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 12 months, in 2 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

12 of the 13 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language”.

**Verdict:** Praised for good-looking, ray-traced voxel visuals and unusual technology; the common caveat is that it resembles Minecraft, which critics find not groundbreaking.

Summary written by Claude from 16 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 14 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Impressive visuals (3 comments in the sample): "looks great to me, if that little gif is anything to go by" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258886)) "I wasn't prepared to see how good the game looks visually" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244650)) "It's a beautiful little game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247923))
- Unique tech unlike other engines (3 comments in the sample): "You have something here that the other game engines don't have" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243628)) "that's exactly what lets Wouter push things nobody else can" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254717)) "I’ve never seen anything like Voxile." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239043))
- Creator's earlier work respected (2 comments in the sample): "you made Lobster lang, Cube2/Sauerbraten 3d shooter and voxray/voxile and lots of other cool things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228531)) "Cool, finally something from Aardappel again" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246342))
- Gameplay differs from Minecraft (2 comments in the sample): "It's not intended to be a Minecraft clone…" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242376)) "merging real quests with a Minecraft-like will be compelling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241277))

## What people warn about

- Seen as a Minecraft clone (1 comment in the sample): "a Minecraft clone is not exactly groundbreaking in terms of gameplay" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241590))

## Other sandbox games people recommend

- [Minecraft](https://hackerapproved.com/p/minecraft/): 134 recommend, 73 mixed, 127 criticize
- [Luanti](https://hackerapproved.com/p/luanti/): 19 recommend, 2 mixed, 4 criticize
- [No Man's Sky Cosmos](https://hackerapproved.com/p/no-man-s-sky-cosmos/): 13 recommend, 9 mixed, 29 criticize
- [Terraria](https://hackerapproved.com/p/terraria/): 11 recommend, 3 mixed, 4 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Voxile", https://hackerapproved.com/p/voxile/ (13 recommend, 2 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.